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Step-by-step coversion to module-based folder structure for zend project, bounty coming

Answer 1

+1 A:

Well I dev in Netbeans IDE.

http://i.imgur.com/n9Zjn.jpg

Im a newbie :P ( need 10 points)

Each Bootstrap should have :

<?php 
// Public_Bootstrap replace for Blog_Bootstrap or Administrator_Bootstrap
// well its for me
class Public_Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Module_Bootstrap {

}

Main Bootstrap:

<?php
    class Bootstrap extends Zend_Application_Bootstrap_Bootstrap {

       protected function _initAutoLoad() {

          $modLoader = new Zend_Application_Module_Autoloader(
                    array(
                        'namespace' => '',
                        'basePath' => APPLICATION_PATH . '/modules/public'
                    )
          );        

          return $modLoader;
       }
       public function _initViewHelpers() {

          $this->bootstrap(array('frontcontroller', 'view'));
          $view = $this->getResource('view');
          $view->doctype('XHTML1_STRICT');
          $view->headMeta()->appendHttpEquiv("Content-Type", "text/html;charset=UTF-8")
            ->appendName("description", "Some description");
     }
  }

application.ini :

[production]
resources.modules[] =
phpSettings.display_startup_errors = 0 
phpSettings.display_errors = 0
includePaths.library = APPLICATION_PATH "/../library"
bootstrap.path = APPLICATION_PATH "/Bootstrap.php" 
bootstrap.class = "Bootstrap" 
resources.layout.layoutPath = APPLICATION_PATH "/layouts/scripts/"

resources.frontController.moduleDirectory = APPLICATION_PATH "/modules"
resources.frontController.defaultmodule = "public" 
resources.frontController.prefixDefaultModule = true  

resources.view[] = 

resources.db.adapter = PDO_MYSQL
resources.db.isDefaultTableAdapter = true 
resources.db.params.host ="localhost"
resources.db.params.username ="yourUser"
resources.db.params.password ="yourPassword"
resources.db.params.dbname ="DBName"

My bootstrap have more code, including plugings.

iJD 2010-10-12 17:16:22

Answer 2

+5 A:

Here's what I did to try and follow your example (from scratch):

$ zf create project .
$ zf create module product
$ zf create module default

I then moved controllers, models and views from ./application to ./application/modules.

Next I opened up application.ini, and replaced this line (which tells ZF where to find controllers in a non-modular app):

resources.frontController.controllerDirectory = APPLICATION_PATH "/controllers"

with:

resources.frontController.moduleDirectory = APPLICATION_PATH "/modules"

which tells ZF where to find modules.

I then manually created an index controller for the product module so I could test that this worked, which it did. I then hit http://localhost/index/index to see if the default module index action still worked, it didn't, instead I got the error:

Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Zend_Controller_Dispatcher_Exception' with message 'Invalid controller class ("Default_ErrorController")' in ...

it sounds like this is where you got to.

There are two ways to fix this error, and the documentation is quite misleading (possibly even wrong). It states:

Note that in the default module, controllers do not need a namespace prefix. Thus, in the example above, the controllers in the default module do not need a prefix of 'Default_' -- they are simply dispatched according to their base controller name: 'IndexController' and 'FooController'. A namespace prefix is used in all other modules, however.

but clearly the error above indicates that ZF is looking for an ErrorController class called Default_ErrorController. To fix this you can do one of two things:

Change the class names of application/modules/default/controllers/IndexController.php from IndexController to Default_IndexController, and application/modules/default/controllers/ErrorController.php from ErrorController to Default_ErrorController
Or remove this line:

resources.frontController.params.prefixDefaultModule = "1"

from application.ini. This line tells ZF to use the 'Default_' namespace on the default module classes, so without it it will just look for 'IndexController'. I went for the latter option, and http://localhost/index/index then worked as expected.

In your case you said you got a blank page at /index/index, which means either:

You have a different problem
You have errors disabled in development mode
You are running in production mode where errors are disabled by default (most likely)

to check the last option, open application.ini and temporarily change phpSettings.display_errors from 0 to 1 in the production section. If you then get the same error I had above, hopefully you'll be able to get everything working.

I hope this is helpful. All I can say is don't get too reliant on Zend_Tool for management of your app - it can't do everything, and often it's easier to manually move things around than to try and do everything via. the zf command; particularly when restructuring.

Tim Fountain 2010-10-12 22:20:43

Thanks Tim, More than helpful, totally solved my problem. I'll start the bounty when the system lets me (I think 2 days or something) and choose this answer then.

jblue 2010-10-13 05:59:49

+1 for the excellent answer, especially for `prefixDefaultModule`

David Weinraub 2010-10-14 17:34:48

Sorry for the late bounty. The system required that I wait 23 hours from the time I started the bounty before I could assign it + had to wait 2 days after posting the question to start the bounty. Stupid bounty system.

jblue 2010-10-15 09:17:21

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